EU Council President Donald Tusk on Wednesday said he and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko believed Russia’s account of recent events in the strife-torn east of the country was “unreliable”.

Tusk said he had called Poroshenko, after EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini last week expressed support for Ukraine when Moscow charged Kiev
with “terrorist” incursions into Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.

“Spoke to President Poroshenko. We have a similar assessment of the situation in Crimea and Donbass. Russian version of events unreliable,” Tusk said on Twitter.

Spoke to President Poroshenko. We have a similar assessment of the situation in Crimea and Donbas. Russian version of events unreliable.

He added that he was “positive” on the prospect of visa-free travel for Ukraine, a key incentive offered to Kiev in return for political and economic reforms meant to help the former Soviet-era satellite meet EU standards.

Ukrainian activists today (17 August) held a protest in central Kyiv accusing the country’s powerful prosecutors of obstructing a newly formed national agency that has exposed massive official corruption.

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Corrupt politicians like Juncker (LuxLeaks) & Tusk (personal financial interests in Ukraine) have no alternative than back the corrupted Poroshenko.
We have to put an end to this corrupted EU.

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Jay

18/08/2016 12:13

Tusk’s statement is parr for the course due to the fact that the west was caught off guard by the actions of what now appears to have been a rouge unit operating inside Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Intelligence Dept – where the attacks were planned. As long as the West does nothing to reign Kiev in there is no reason for Kiev to honor the Minsk II accords. Putin has now put the “failure to comply” monkey on the US-EU-NATO backs, where it belongs.

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Jay

18/08/2016 22:59

The developments in Ukraine indicate that US-backed Kiev regime is actively seeking to find a cause to escalate the situation in the region and has already prepared a significant military force for this. Recent reports show that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were forming shock troops at the borders with the Donbass People’s Republics and Crimea. A notable concentration of troops, self-propelled artillery platforms, main battle tanks, BM-21 Grads and infantry combat vehicles occurred right near the Crimean isthmus. On August 16, the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) intelligence reported that 58 units of Ukrainian military equipment, including main battle tanks, self-propelled… Read more »